You can either scroll through these pages or click on a face to jump directly to that crew member. Check back at the end of the voyage to see our new crew members receive their official (and exclusive) Half Moon crew shirts.

Captain William Reynolds has been captain of the Half Moon and Director of the New Netherland Museum since 1998. Before coming to the Half Moon, he captained numerous seagoing vessels, both historical and industrial. His background also includes training and work in the environmental sciences. He currently lives with his family in Selkirk, NY, and is looking forward to seeing the new student crew meet the challenges this Voyage of Discovery places before them.

Marco Burmester

Marco Burmester first joined the Half Moon in the summer of 2009 for a day-long visit — the first crew member ever to join the ship by way of jet-ski (and the assistance of many unknown helpers). Mr. Burmester is a banker from Germany who has been in New York City for the last six years. He very much takes advantage of New York's theaters and music scene, being a musician himself.

Sara DuBois

Sara DuBois is from Horseheads, NY. She recently spent eight months in Uhkta, Russia teaching English and has previously lived in Finland and Malawi. She enjoys learning languages, singing, using the quadrant, and intercultural exchange programs.

Robbert Fehmers

Robbert Fehmers was born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His formal training is in linguistics, having majored in Russian and Japanese in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom. Since his youth he has had an affinity with sailing, but opportunities to really get involved in it were limited until, in April 2011, he completed a course training for sailing professionally operated sailing ships at the Enkhauzen Nautical College in the Netherlands. He feels honored to have been invited as bo's'un on board the historical and unique vessel Half Moon for the second half of the 2011 season. This is his first extended stay in the United States since working and studying in Chicago and in the Los Angeles area in the 1980s and 90s.

Bob Hansen

Ship's mate Bob Hansen started sailing on the Hudson on the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater; later, on two engineless sloops. Since the 1990s, he has served as a volunteer and mate on the schooners Spirit of Massachusetts and Ernestina, as well as other vessels.

Having recently retired from a career as a self-styled "bureaucrat" with the New York State government, Mr. Hansen has now turned his attention to serving as second-in-command on board the Half Moon.

Kerri Johnson

Kerri Johnson is from Glenville, NY and teaches Spanish at Myers Middle School in Albany. She is excited about sailing on the Half Moon. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and skiing.

Doug Lyke

Doug Lyke lives in Poughkeepsie and works at Dutchess County Community College as an A/V Technician. He first came on board in 2009 during the River Week voyage. His wife asked him to search the Half Moon's website to see when tours were being held during its stay in Poughkeepsie a few weeks before River Week. While searching, he saw where to click to volunteer. The next thing he knew, he was climbing aboard the Half Moon in the middle of the night at Piermont!

John W. Mangrum

Originally hailing from the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, John W. Mangrum holds one of the most anachronistic positions the crew of a 17th-century wooden sailing ship could imagine: the Half Moon's webmaster. Seldom seen in front of the camera, the self-titled "Ship's Chronicler" oversees the daily updates to this website during our voyages. A roleplaying game designer in a past life, Mr. Mangrum has been sailing on board the Half Moon since the summer of 2004. What started as a simple, impromptu dockside tour of the ship has since turned into a life of adventure.

Henk Morel

Henk Morel has been a sailing instructor and has organized sailing camps all of his life, usually working with small open boats. His interests include classic sailing, restoration of old ships, and old-fashioned nautical skills. Besides this, he was worked for the Dutch government in location managing and also as a teacher in several practical technologies. The father of former Half Moon bosun Mark Morel, Henk Morel has returned for his third Voyage of Discovery. He is pleased as ever to do so. He hopes to once again have a good time with the youths, to help overall, and to demonstrate some ropeworks and sailmaking.

Carolyn Niehaus2000 Fall Voyage of Discovery Alumna

Carolyn Niehaus works on the Half Moon. She has brown hair she likes to wear in braids. She keeps spoons in her cargo pockets and she bunks with Sara. She has an earring in her left ear. She wears orange shoes and green pants. She also writes people's names on water bottles. She also didn't help Rebecca write this biography.

By Rebecca Morrow!

Grant Prime

Grant Prime teaches 5th grade at Taconic Hills Middle School. Mr. Prime has been involved with historical re-enactments for more than thirty years, and has been bringing his enthusiasm to the Half Moon each summer since 1998. He has completed his Master's in Elementary Education, and was a contributor to the New Netherland Museum's 4th- and 7th-grade curriculum materials.

Danielle Stevens

Danielle Stevens is a fresh bosun who’s done a lot of sailing in the Netherlands, but not on anything like this ship. In the Netherlands, she learned to sail on a “Valk,” near Leiden, but lately she’s had some experience on bigger ships and larger waters like the Ijseelmeer and the Waddenzee. She is a social worker in the Netherlands, working with homeless youth.

Ms. Stevens will be here for two months and she hopes to learn lots more about sailing the Half Moon and about the Netherlands.

Jan de Vries

Jan de Vries is 64 years old, and as of this year retired as a schoolteacher. He worked with developmentally disabled children the ages of 17-18. He likes traveling, cycling, and skating in the wintertime. He is a friend of Henk Morel, who organized Mr. de Vries’ presence on the voyage. Cooking on a ship is quite a new experience for him, and he wants to do the utmost to make everyone satisfied.

Tiffany Zadoorian

Tiffany Zadoorian teaches 5th grade at Central Park International Magnet School. She is so excited to share this experience with her students. She hopes to learn how to sail and to learn the history behind the Hudson River. She loves to be out in the fresh air and meeting new people. This is going to be a great trip!

Pauli Dangerousli

This is Pauli Dangerousli's fourth year with the Half Moon. He accounts himself a sailor, a musician, a healer, and a philosopher.

Mr. Dangerousli has been assisting the crew with ground transportation, maintenance, and dockside line landing during the Half Moon's stops in Verplanck prior to and during this voyage.